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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.156
Title
Large wide-mouthed jar
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 戰國 原始瓷印紋罐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
5th-4th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Zhejiang Province
Period
Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192949

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Proto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze
Dimensions
H. 37.2 x Diam. 51.2 cm (14 5/8 x 20 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[J.J. Lally & Co., New York, January 1999] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (1998-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.156
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Large globular wide-mouthed jar with short neck, broad shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a flat base; light gray stoneware with thin ash glaze over stamped decoration, the exposed body clay with reddish brown skin.
Commentary
Compare to:
Proto-porcelain jar of similar form with short neck and geometric basket-weave decor excavated in 2008-2009 from the Warring States period Tingziqiao kiln site in the Economic Development Zone of Deqing County, Zhejiang province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 12 (2009): 10, fig. 10.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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